Chapter 8: Racing Against Time

  This world, this market, is nothing but a breeding ground for capitalists. First, they fatten people up, then through various bubbles, they plunder people's wealth, and then continue to raise them, fattening them up again before slaughtering them, in an endless cycle of repetition.

  War and economy are also constantly cyclical and repetitive. After the productive forces are in excess and can no longer continue to develop, war will be born. After the destruction of war, there will be another round of development and construction...

  So when a person cannot become a top capitalist, then absolute wealth will not last for three generations. When a country has not formed its own national financial group, it is very difficult to win in the increasingly modernized war, and any prosperity is just a fleeting moment.

  After going through the rubber foam economy of Jiangsu and Sichuan, I have come to realize that China must have a capital group that can compete with foreign capital, just like the Rothschild family in Western Europe, the international financial groups in the United States, and the Junker financial groups in Germany.

  At least in the next two hundred years, capital is undoubtedly the mainstream.

  To form a Chinese national financial group, World War I was a good opportunity. It was also the First World War that led to the formal formation of Japanese capital.

  At this time China was a semi-feudal and semi-colonial country, it is difficult to develop its own national financial group, but not impossible, while military, industry, agriculture, finance, education, infrastructure are indispensable.

  Development should be done as soon as possible, Jiang Yu began to build large-scale education on one side, that is, a special school was built for every factory opened, and at the same time, apprentices were continued to be sent to Germany.

  Hua Hai Group's scale in Germany has been getting bigger and bigger, through technical advantages and bank relationships, the scale is still expanding, and the production projects involved are also increasing. Arranging several thousand technicians and apprentices is not difficult.

  These skilled apprentices are also very welcome in other German factories, because they do not need to pay them too much salary. German workers also have no hostility towards them, because after they finish their studies, they will return to China and will not compete with them for jobs.

  These apprentices were assigned to various factories involved in a variety of industrial production projects.

  At the same time, Jiang Yu also sent more than 300 students to Germany, who were also arranged to study science, engineering, agriculture and medicine.

  In agriculture, Jiang Yu also began to get involved. He allocated 20 million yuan in funds and set up a reclamation company. The reclamation company carried out preliminary land reclamation in northern Jiangsu.

  However, the land price is still relatively cheap, but the investment is too large. The price of over 100 yuan per mu is still too high, and 200 million yuan can't buy much land. Therefore, the land that was initially enclosed was all wasteland, and then poor people were hired to reclaim it. The goal of reclamation in 10 years is 600,000 mu.

  The time for large-scale enclosure has not yet arrived, and agricultural technology is also not perfect.

  Tractors are a sharp tool for agricultural production, and fertilizers are also necessary. High-yielding seeds are not to be thought of for the time being. However, Jiang Yu has invested one million yuan and established several breeding bases, vigorously researching high-yielding technology. For this reason, Jiang Yu found a large amount of data and let agricultural researchers conduct research.

  The most secretive is still the military construction, and the scale of Jiangbei Xunfang Camp has expanded to a brigade level, with ten times more personnel than before!

  The excess personnel were then claimed to be factory militiamen.

  These militiamen were too well-equipped and didn't engage in production on ordinary days, almost all of them were training.

  Jiang Yu also established the Huaiyin Lecture Martial Hall, starting to cultivate his own officers. The Lecture Martial Hall was divided into infantry department, artillery department, reconnaissance department and special warfare department.

  The Wuchang Military Academy hired many German instructors, and Jiang Yowu and Chiang Chung-cheng served as president and vice-president respectively. It had both things from Germany and its own things.

  For example, the Reconnaissance Department has air reconnaissance and an Air Force class, which teaches not only air reconnaissance but also air force concepts. The Special Warfare Department is for teaching special warfare.

  The army's training aspect invited a large number of German instructors, and many Chinese instructors who studied at the German Army School. The training in the army was very hard, and at first, the German instructors were worried that such hard training would cause the soldiers to mutiny.

  However, after a period of time, what left those German officers speechless was that these Chinese soldiers possessed super strong endurance.

  Those ordinary soldiers were from farming backgrounds and were very down-to-earth, more hardworking and enduring, and the treatment in the army was very good, they didn't want to give up.

  In order for myself and my family to live a good life, I must persist.

  In order for soldiers to understand national righteousness, the military also set up military schools, requiring every soldier to study. Factories also have night schools.

  In Huaiyin, whether in factories or schools, military-style management is implemented. Each worker works for 10 hours a day and also attends night school in the evening. Only when they have reached a certain cultural standard are they allowed to freely entertain themselves after work in the evening. Different age groups have different standards: older people only need to learn to write their own names and recognize numbers; middle-aged people are required to recognize 500 characters; young people are required to recognize more than 1,500 characters and also learn simple arithmetic.

  Cultural dissemination enables soldiers to have the potential to become grassroots officers in the future, workers to have the potential to become technicians, and even engineers.

  When their cultural level reaches a certain level, Jiang Yu will reward them, with both material and spiritual rewards.

  For children, Jiang Yu made them receive education on the one hand and also used child labor. At that time, Chinese children did not have the luxury of playing. Using child labor was to make them not lazy when they grew up, secondly, to let them contact industrial production from an early age, so that they could be more familiar with the production process, and thirdly, it was also to reduce education costs.

  Schools are like this, not every student can become a high-end talent. Those students who cannot become high-end talents might as well be sent to join industrial production earlier. And those students who can become high-end talents will be selected for further study.

  The army, factories, schools and construction sites are all racing against time, without any slack.

  Jiang Yu, apart from having a brigade of troops in Huaiyin, also replaced the merchant escort with a battalion of troops in Shanghai and formed a regiment of troops in the Wuhu area.

  At the same time, Jiang Yu also formed a special operations battalion. This special operations battalion was equipped with all kinds of submachine guns and sniper rifles.

  The whole army has a martial arts instructor, after returning to the country, Jiang Yu wrote a letter to Zhang Zhan Kui and invited his senior fellow apprentice Han Mu Xia to Huaiyin, serving as the martial arts instructor of the Jiangbei Patrol Camp.

  Han Muxia is one of the modern martial arts masters, with very strong combat power. He has killed a Russian strongman in history and was an instructor of the Big Knife Troop, known as "Jade-faced Tiger".

  As Jiang Yu Bai was under Zhang Zhan Kui's tutelage, Han Mu Xia became his senior fellow disciple.

  The bayonet training of the entire army was presided over by Han Muxia, who simplified Xingyiquan and formed a simple and practical routine for ordinary soldiers to practice, and popularized simple and easy-to-learn hard qigong and grappling techniques in the military.

  In the army, special forces and scouts must all learn martial arts to enhance their physical agility. After all, individual combat skills are also very important in the process of fighting behind enemy lines.

  Martial artists first have a quick reaction and stronger physical strength, and their movements are also more stealthy.

  In special warfare troops, most soldiers have a martial arts background and already have this foundation. In modern society, drastic changes have taken place, traditional walking sticks can no longer provide a livelihood for martial artists, and martial artists are facing the problem of unemployment, and people who practice martial arts have also begun to decrease.

  Fortunately, the martial arts atmosphere is still relatively strong in various parts of China. Many rural areas have a tradition of passing down martial arts from generation to generation, and some places even have entire villages practicing martial arts. Moreover, many of the great masters of modern times are still alive.

  These soldiers with a foundation in martial arts made significant progress under Han Muxia's guidance. After all, famous masters are famous for a reason, and Han Muxia had learned from many teachers, having extensive knowledge of various martial arts styles, able to handle any situation with ease.

  With just short-range combat power, plus those submachine guns, this army is invincible in the world.

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